President Obama’s new budget attempts to define a progressive alternative to conservative demands for a politics of austerity. Having just returned from a gathering of…
The economy is improving, but the U.S. is still struggling with an investment drought. Capital spending by business is 26% below the long-term trend, and…
The House Republicans appear to be conducting a war on economic data. They seem to think that defunding data collection is all gain and no…
Late yesterday marked a formal end to the two-year debate on whether the Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im), the U.S. export credit agency, deserves to live to…
Sometimes things are not what we think they are. The conventional notion is that government has become more important under President Obama, while the private…
PPI Economic and Domestic Policy Director Scott Thomasson testifies today at 10 a.m. before the House Highways and Transit Subcommittee on the National Infrastructure Bank….
Date October 6, 2011 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. Location 902 Hart Senate Office Building U.S. Capitol Complex Washington, DC 20501 Join PPI and top…
In the wake of Hurricane Irene, there has been consternation over whether the GOP proposed cuts to the United States Geological Survey signifies that they…
On his show last week, Chris Matthews of MSNBC’s Hardball recommended that the president “pork out.” Remember those pet infrastructure projects Republicans sacrificed at the…
When President Obama took office in January 2009, he promised that ” to lay a new foundation for growth….we will build the roads and bridges.”…